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Organic Farming - The experience of a farmer in Odisha
In order to overcome the ill effects of Green Revolution, farmers in India have begun to
adopt different farming practices. Let us look at an example. Aged 80, Natwarbhai is a
resident of Narishu village, near Niali in Cuttack district, Odisha. A retired school teacher,
he has been practising organic farming for the last decade or so, and swears by its potential
to feed India's population. He says some of the varieties he grows yield over 20 quintals per
acre, higher than the so-called 'high-yielding' varieties that farmers around him get after
using chemical fertilizers and pesticides. Infact he spends much less on his crops since his
main inputs are gobar, natural pesticides when occasionally needed and family labour.
Natwarbhai was earlier a 'modern' farmer. One day, while watching a labourer spray
Carbofuran (a highly toxic pesticide), he was horrified to see him stagger and collapse.
The worker was rushed for treatment. He survived but not Natwarbhai's faith in the new
agriculture was lost. Especially after the labourer told him: "I could not breathe, my head
was reeling"; and especially after, having buried the remaining stock of Carbofuran in a
pit in his fields, Natwarbhai "saw dead snails, snakes, and frogs floating in the water that
had accumulated there. "I immediately wondered what would be happening to the
earthworms and micro-organisms that I knew kept the soil alive."
Natwarbhai switched to organic inputs, but with the high yielding varieties that the
agricultural department provided. On the advise of the son, Rajendra, started cultivating
traditional varieties. But such traditional varieties are rarely cultivated Now a days. It
posed a big problem.
In 1999, he started his journey to search for traditi seeonal varieties of paddy seeds. He
travelled all over Odisha, and a little outside, about 5,000 kms. He collected dozens of traditional variational varieties of seeds from the area termed as backyard.



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